iSky Panels Blog

We’re at the Light + Build show in Frankfurt, Germany!  So all this week and next we’ll share our favorite images, exhibitors, and learnings.  Today it’s the incredible Philips exhibit and products.

Philips has made such a great showing at the Light + Build show, that a lot of competitors are asking themselves, do they even want to stay in the lighting business.  Phillips has been pouring over 4% of it’s sales into R&D. Of that, over 70% is going into the development of LED’s, and it shows.

Everything about the Philips booth is LED.  For the most part, they have successfully taken every lighting application and converted it to LED.  Not just switching out an old incandescent lamp for an LED retrofit, but rethinking the way that fixtures need to be designed in order to take full advantage of an LED package.  Besides the LED themselves, there are two other key components, thermal management (getting the heat away from the LED – heat shortens the life of a LED) and optics (how the light is harvested from the LED and then displayed.)  The next layer is control.  Controlling the out put based on environmental conditions or situation.  Street lights that are at full brightness during evening commute, but dim afterwards to conserve electricity and lamp life, but then brighten when motion is detected.  Or say lights at a bus or train stop.  They are in full illumination for 20 minutes prior to a train or bus arriving, then stay on for 5 minutes afterwards then at which time they dim down or go off.

Brilliant use of technology to make us feel safe.

Go here to see even more images from the Philips exhibit.